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What happened in history on this day: June 19?
On June 19 in ...
- 981 - Death of Saint Adalbert von Magdeburg; established Christianity in Russia in 961, Bishop of Magdeburg.
- 1464 - King Louis XI of France forms body of couriers for royal use, with private use by permission and fee.
- 1556 - Birth of James VI of Scotland (1567-1625)/James I of England (1603-25).
- 1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island North Carolina.
- 1623 - Birth of Blaise Pascal; mathematician/physicist/religious writer (dies 1662).
- 1754 - Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies and Iroquois indians.
- 1764 - Birth of José Gervasio Artigas general/father of Uruguay.
- 1764 - Birth of John Barrow England, founded Royal Geographical Society.
- 1778 - George Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
- 1783 - Birth of Thomas Sully; US portrait painter (Queen Victoria).
- 1846 - In Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, the first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played (Cartwright Rules); New York Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1.
- 1856 - Birth of Elbert Hubbard; US editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia).
- 1862 - Slavery outlawed in US territories.
- 1864 - CSS Alabama sunk by USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France.
- 1865 - All slaves in Texas are freed.
- 1865 - Birth of May Whitty in Liverpool, England; actress (Mrs Minerva).
- 1867 - First Belmont Stakes, Ruthless wins.
- 1867 - Ferdinand Maximilian, Mexican emperor, is executed by firing squad outside Querétaro, Mexico; Mexican republic is restored.
- 1868 - Major General E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia, South Carolina.
- 1875 - Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio.
- 1877 - Birth of Charles Coburn in Macon, Georgia, USA; actor (Academy Award-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes).
- 1878 - Birth of James M Kilroe; priest of Saint Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx, New York, USA.
- 1889 - Birth of Enrico Celio; president of Switzerland.
- 1896 - Birth of Bessie Wallis Warfield AKA Wallace Simpson to Teackle Warfield and Alice Montague in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, USA; married Edward, Duke of Windsor.
- 1897 - Birth of Moe Howard; comedian (The Three Stooges).
- 1900 - Birth of Laura Hobson in New York City, New York, USA; TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret).
- 1902 - Birth of Guy Lombardo in London, Ontario, Canada; orchestra leader ("Auld Lang Syne").
- 1903 - Birth of Henry Louis Gehrig AKA Lou Gehrig AKA Iron Horse; first baseman (New York Yankees) (dies 1941).
- 1905 - Birth of George Voskovec in Czechoslovakia; actor (Fred - Nero Wolfe, Peter - Skag).
- 1908 - Birth of Mildred Natwick in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon).
- 1908 - Birth of Quentin N Burdick; American politician (Senator-Democrat-North Carolina).
- 1909 - Birth of Osamu Dazai in Japan; novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human).
- 1910 - Father's Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Washington, USA).
- 1912 - Birth of Jerry Jerome in Brooklyn, New York, USA; saxophonist (Words and Music).
- 1912 - Birth of Martin Gabel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; TV host (With this Ring).
- 1914 - Birth of Alan Cranston; American politician (Senator-Democrat-California) Presidential candidate.
- 1914 - Birth of Harry Lauter in White Plains, New York, USA; actor (Waterfront).
- 1914 - Birth of Lester Flatt; Earl Scrugg's partner ("Beverly Hillbillies theme").
- 1914 - A radiotelegraphic link is established between Germany and the United States - German Emperor Wilhelm II and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson exchange telegrams to mark the event.
- 1918 - Birth of Evelle Jansen Younger; prosecutor of Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan.
- 1919 - Birth of Louis Jourdan in Marselles, France; actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary).
- 1919 - Birth of Pauline Kael; movie critic (New York Times) (dies 2001).
- 1921 - Birth of Howell Heflin; American politician (Senator-Democrat-Alabama).
- 1922 - Birth of Aage Neals Bohr in Denmark; physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel Prize 1975).
- 1924 - Birth of Leo Nomellini; NFL defensive tackle (San Francisco 49ers).
- 1928 - Birth of Nancy Marchand in Buffalo, New York, USA; actress (Beacon Hill, Margaret - Lou Grant).
- 1931 - First photoelectric cell installed commercially, in West Haven, Connecticut, USA.
- 1931 - In an attempt to stop the banking crisis in Central Europe from causing a worldwide financial meltdown, President Herbert Hoover issues the Hoover Moratorium.
- 1932 - Birth of Marisa Pavan; actress (John Paul Jones, Solomon and Sheba, Rose Tattoo).
- 1932 - Birth of Pier Angeli in Italy; actor (Sodom and Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge).
- 1932 - Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China.
- 1933 - Birth of Viktor I Patsayev in USSR; cosmonaut (Soyuz 11).
- 1934 - US Congress pases the Silver Purchase Act, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase silver until market price reaches $1.2929 per ounce, or until value of silver stock reaches one-third of gold stock.
- 1934 - Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created.
- 1936 - Birth of Gena Rowlands in Cambria, Wisconsin, USA; actress (Gloria, Tempest, Brinks Job).
- 1938 - Olympian Flyer express train crashes in Montana, USA, killing 47.
- 1938 - Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's third World Cup at Paris, France.
- 1939 - Birth of Al Wilson in Meridian, Mississippi, USA; soul singer (The Snake, Show and Tell, Count the Days) (dies 2008).
- 1939 - Grace Abbott, social worker (US Children Bureau), dies at age 60.
- 1941 - Birth of Marlene Warfield in Queens, New York, USA; actress (Victoria - Maude).
- 1942 - Birth of Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane; rocker (Spanky and Our Gang - "Lazy Day").
- 1943 - NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on December 5).
- 1944 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea takes place, over two days. Allied ships sink three Japanese aircraft carriers, damage two more, and destroy 426 of 473 planes.
- 1945 - Birth of Tim Hovey in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid).
- 1946 - First TV sports spectacular-Joe Louis versus Billy Conn.
- 1947 - First plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc, California.
- 1947 - Birth of Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad in Houston, Texas, USA; actress (Clair - Bill Cosby).
- 1947 - Birth of Salman Rushdie; novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses).
- 1949 - Birth of Kathleen Turner in Springfield, Missouri, USA; actress (Peggy Sue Got Married).
- 1950 - A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca.
- 1950 - Birth of Connie Forslund in San Diego, California, USA; actress (Shining Season).
- 1950 - In Orange County, California, USA, C.J. Hart opens the world's first commercial automotive dragstrip.
- 1951 - Birth of Ann Wilson in San Diego, California, USA; singer (Heart - "What About Love").
- 1952 - CBS debuts TV show I've Got A Secret, with Garry Moore as host.
- 1952 - Brooklyn Dodgers' Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0.
- 1953 - Albert W Dent is elected president of National Health Council.
- 1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviets, are executed by electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
- 1955 - Mickey Mantle hits career home run number 100.
- 1955 - Philadelphia Phillies beat Chicago Cubs 1-0 in 15 innings, ties longest shut out in Philadelphia Phillies history.
- 1959 - Birth of Mark DeBarge; rocker (DeBarge - "Who's Johnny").
- 1959 - US Senate rejects President Dwight Eisenhower's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Secretary of Commerce.
- 1961 - Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain.
- 1961 - US Supreme Court strikes down a provision in Maryland's constitution.
- 1962 - Birth of Paula Julie Abdul in Van Nuys, California, USA; singer/choreographer (Straight Up).
- 1962 - Frank Borzage, Academy Award winning director, dies at age 69.
- 1963 - Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame are chosen.
- 1966 - Death of Isaiah Edwin Leopold AKA Ed Wynn at age 79; comic/actor (The Ed Wynn Show, All Star Revue, Mary Poppins, Ziegfeld Follies, Marjorie Morningstar, The Diary of Anne Frank, Cinderfella, Babes in Toyland, The Absent-Minded Professor).
- 1968 - 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign.
- 1968 - In Northern Peru, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. Forty-six people were killed, 120 injured, and 50 houses destroyed in Moyobama, San Martin.
- 1969 - State troopers ordered to Cairo, Illinois, to quell racial disturbances.
- 1969 - Alain Poher ceases serving as Provisional President of France.
- 1970 - A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9.
- 1971 - Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus, Georgia, USA, for racial disturbance.
- 1973 - Birth of Josie Davis; actress (Charles in Charge).
- 1973 - Pete Rose and Willie Davis both get career hit number 2,000.
- 1973 - Roger Delgado, actor (Adventures of Sir Francis Drake), dies at age 53.
- 1974 - Kansas City Royals' Steve Busby second no-hitter, beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0.
- 1975 - Death of Sam Giancana, shot in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1976 - Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf marries Silvia Sommerlath of Germany.
- 1976 - US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth.
- 1977 - Pope Paul VI makes 19th-century bishop John Neumann first US male saint.
- 1977 - Boston Red Sox set three-game record of 16 home runs, all against New York Yankees.
- 1978 - Cricketer Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take 8 wickets in 1 inning of a Test match.
- 1978 - The Garfield comic strip debuts, eventually growing to produce over US$1 billion in revenue in over 110 countries.
- 1980 - Iraqi security forces shoot dead 3 gunmen who attacked the British Embassy in Baghdad. The unknown attackers are killed in the embassy gardens by Iraqi security men, sent at the urgent request of the British ambassador, Alex Stirling.
- 1981 - European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit.
- 1981 - Heaviest known orange (2.5kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa.
- 1981 - India's APPLE satellite, first to be stabilized on three axes, launched.
- 1981 - Death of Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette animator (born 1899).
- 1981 - Fox releases the film The Cannonball Run to theaters.
- 1981 - Warner Bros. releases the film Superman II to theaters.
- 1982 - Offshore El Salvador, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. At least 40 people killed, many injured and thousands of people left homeless in El Salvador. Felt in Costa Rica, Honduras and Nicaragua.
- 1982 - The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
- 1984 - Birth of Emil Coleman; orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party).
- 1985 - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th home run to move into 10th place.
- 1986 - Birth of Marvin Williams, American basketball player.
- 1986 - Len Bias, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure (born 1963).
- 1986 - Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient, dies in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1986 - Death of Michel "Coluche" Colucci, French comedian and humorist (born 1944).
- 1987 - Geffen Records sign their first artist (Donna Summer).
- 1987 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution was taught is unconstitutional.
- 1987 - Wee Willie Keeler's 44-game hitting streak ends.
- 1992 - Warner Bros. releases the film Batman Returns to theaters.
- 1993 - Death of William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911).
- 1997 - In England, the fast-food chain McDonald's wins a partial victory in its libel trial against environmental campaigners Helen Steel and Dave Morris. The court case over seven years is the lonest trial in England's legal history, including 313 days in court, and 180 witnesses called. In the 1000-page verdict, the judge accepts that McDonald's exploits children, cruelly treats animals, management can be autocratic and unfair, and that a diet of McDonald's food contributes to heart disease. Steel and Morris are ordered to pay US$95,490 damages for other unsubstantiated claims (later reduced to US$61,300, but never collected).
- 1998 - Buena Vista releases the film Mulan to theaters.
- 1999 - The Dallas Stars defeat the Buffalo Sabres in triple overtime of game six of the Stanley Cup Finals to win their first Stanley Cup. Brett Hull scores the controversial cup-winning goal to seal the victory.
- 2000 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Indiana Pacers 116-111 in Game 6 of the 2000 NBA Finals, winning the series.
- 2000 - Death of Christiane Herzog, wife of the former German President (1994 -1999), Roman Herzog.
- 2001 - Death of Steve Broadie, voice actor in video games Sonic Adventure, Sonic Shuffle and Sonic Adventure 2.
- 2001 - Death of John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (born 1916).
- 2001 - An American missile hits a soccer field in northern Iraq (Tel Afr County), killing 23 and wounding 11.
- 2002 - Total Nonstop Action Wrestling makes its debut on Pay-Per-View (the first weekly wrestling show on PPV).
- 2003 - Death of Peanuts Hucko at age 85; bigband clarinetist (Charlie Spivak, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Ray McKinley, Eddie Condon, Jack Teagarden, Glenn Miller Orchestra, Lawrence Welk Orchestra).
- 2005 - Preliminary election results in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, Spain show that Manuel Fraga and the Partido Popular have lost control of the autonomous parliament.
- 2006 - In the National Hockey League, the Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Edmonton Oilers 4 games to 3 games to win the Stanley Cup.
- 2006 - A meteor show is observed in various places in Pennsylvania, USA.
- 2006 - IBM announces it has built a transistor that runs at 500 GHz when cooled to near absolute zero, about 100 times faster than current chips. The transistor is built from silicon laced with germanium.
- 2008 - Queen Elizabeth II gives royal assent to the European Union's Lisbon Treaty for the United Kingdom.
- 2009 - Ken Roberts, American radio and TV announcer (The Secret Storm and Love of Life), founder of broadcast performers' union (AFTRA), dies at age 99.
- 2010 - Scotland records their first southern hemisphere Rugby Union series win with a 13-9 victory over Argentina in Mar del Plata's Estadio Jose Maria Minella.
- 2010 - Roberto Alomar, former Toronto Blue Jays second baseman, is inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Also inducted are former Toronto Blue Jays relief pitcher Paul Quantrill, late Minnesota Twins' owner Calvin Griffith, and late statistician Allan Roth.
- 2010 - Swedish Crown Princess Victoria (age 32) marries her former fitness trainer, 36-year-old commoner Daniel Westling in Stockholm Cathedral. As Crown Princess Victoria's husband, gym owner Westling assumes the title of Prince Daniel, Duke of Vastergotland.
- 2013 - Death of Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994-1998) (born 1932).
- 2014 - King Juan Carlos I of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, who ascends the Spanish throne as King Felipe VI.
- 2018 - Canada becomes the first major industrialised country to legalise cannabis for recreational use. The Bill which legalises cannabis is set to take effect on October 17.
- 2018 - The United States announces it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
- 2019 - Four men are charged with murdering the 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the airliner shot down while flying over Ukraine in July 2014.
- 2022 - Colombia presidential runoff election won by Gustavo Petro with 50.47% over Rodolfo Hernández with 47.27%.
- 2022 - Hong Kong's floating restaurant Jumbo Kingdom sinks in the South China Sea while being towed.
- 2022 - FINA, the world swimming governing body, votes to bar transgenger women from women's events.
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